Shopaholic on Honeymoon (Short Story)

By Sophie Kinsella

This free eBook short story fills in the gaps of Sophie Kinsella’s bestselling Shopaholic series, following Becky Brandon and her husband, Luke, as they start their luxurious yearlong honeymoon around the world. But these jet-setters are about to hit some turbulence.
 
Becky and Luke are in Venice—the city of winding canals, gorgeous historic buildings, and, of course, exceptional shopping. To unwind from the stress of their wedding, Becky has planned an utterly blissful honeymoon where, for an entire year, they will hop from one country to the next—Italy to the Czech Republic to Sri Lanka and beyond—as they please. But lately, Luke has been more restless than relaxed. In fact, he seems (unbelievably!) like he wants to go home. Will Becky be able to save their dream vacation, or will their globe-trotting come to a sudden halt?
 
Praise for the Shopaholic novels
 
“[Sophie] Kinsella has a genuine gift for comic writing.”—The Boston Globe
 
“Hilarious . . . hijinks worthy of classic I Love Lucy episodes . . . too good to pass up.”—USA Today
 
“Kinsella’s Bloomwood is plucky and funny. . . . You won’t have to shop around to find a more winning protagonist.”—People

• Language: English
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Release date: Dec 16, 2014
• ISBN: 9780812988109

Sophie Kinsella

Sophie Kinsella es el pseudónimo de Madeleine Wickham, escritora británica y antigua periodista financiera. Kinsella es la autora de las novelas No te lo vas a creer, La reina de la casa, ¿Te acuerdas de mí? y Una chica años veinte, además de la popular serie protagonizada por Becky Bloomwood, «Loca por las compras», de la que se han vendido millones de ejemplares y ha sido traducida a más de treinta idiomas. Sophie confiesa que le encanta ir de compras y la vuelven loca las rebajas, pero asegura que siempre paga las facturas, solo viaja a Nueva York por razones culturales y mantiene una excelente relación con el director de su banco.

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Book cover imageShopaholic on Honeymoon Sophie Kinsella The Dial Press New York

Shopaholic on Honeymoon is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

A Dial Press eBook Original

Copyright © 2014 by Madhen Mediaworks LLP

Excerpt from Love Your Life copyright © 2020 by Madhen Mediaworks LLP

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Published in the United States by The Dial Press, an imprint of Random House, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New York.

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This book contains an excerpt from Love Your Life by Sophie Kinsella. This excerpt has been set for this edition only and may not reflect the final content of the forthcoming edition.

Ebook ISBN 9780812988109

Cover design and illustration: Keith Hayes

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Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Author's Note

Shopaholic on Honeymoon

By Sophie Kinsella

About the Author

Excerpt from Love Your Life

Dear Reader,

In the series of Shopaholic books featuring Becky and Luke Brandon, there is a rather large time gap between Shopaholic Ties the Knot and Shopaholic & Sister, during which they are on honeymoon.

It is my great pleasure to share with you an episode from their honeymoon adventures, as a little extra treat.

I hope you enjoy it!

Sophie Kinsella

Venice

OK. Don’t panic.

Don’t panic. The water taxi isn’t going to sink. We’ll just have to rearrange our packages. Venetian water taxis must be used to a bit of shopping, surely?

What the hell is this? Luke is sweating as he manhandles our last purchase into the water taxi: a massive bundle of bubble wrap and corrugated cardboard and tape.

I look at him indignantly. How can he ask What’s this?

It’s our set of twelve Murano glass goblets! I say. You were there when we chose them! All the different colors, remember? Weren’t you concentrating?

Right. Luke looks at the huge parcel again. Did we have to buy twelve glass goblets?

"They’re Murano glass, I repeat patiently. We’re in Venice, Luke. Everyone buys Murano glass in Venice. It’s practically the law."

But we bought some Murano glass, he points out. When we were actually on Murano, yesterday. The dish. Remember?

I’m silent for a moment. I know we bought a dish on Murano. But what’s a tiny little dish compared to twelve amazing goblets? I’m already imagining all the dinner parties we’ll throw, using the goblets for aperitifs. We’ll have our dining room totally Venetian. People will say, Have you seen the Brandons’ Venetian goblets?

Everyone needs goblets, I say at last. Come on. Sit down. Enjoy the sunshine.

Luke makes his way past all our bags and lifts a hand to the water-taxi driver.

Scusi, he says. Finito.

As we move

Reviews for Shopaholic on Honeymoon (Short Story)

[carlathelibrarian · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Cute short story.